But, above all, it shifted the center of power in northern Europe from Stockholm to St. Petersburg and turned Russia into an empire, with its tsar, Peter the Great, becoming its first emperor.

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For example, after Catherine I died the crown skipped her daughters and went to Peter the Great’s grandson through Alexei. This Tsar, called Peter II, was a child alcoholic who died on his ...

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"He did not have an entirely bad heart," Catherine the Great wrote of her wastrel husband, Czar Peter III, "but a weak man usually does not." That was her nice way of saying he was pitiable as ...

Legend has it that Russian czar Peter the Great once kissed the forehead of an embalmed child, mistaking it for a slumbering baby. That lifelike infant was one of the many treasures in Frederik Ruysch ...

The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer the questions of how to take the ...

A few weeks later, the committee recommended that the Ministry of Culture should reconsider the status of Poltava's monuments commemorating the Russian tsar Peter the Great and Russia’s victory ...

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